This is according to the preliminary results of a joint study by the Sheba Medical Center and Bar-Ilan University, which compared heart attack mortality data before and after desalination and between places where you drink desalinated water and the rest of the country
Preliminary results of a joint study by the Sheba Medical Center and Bar Ilan University indicate an increase in mortality rates from myocardial infarction in areas where desalinated water is consumed. The study, which was carried out as part of Mittal Schlesinger's doctoral thesis, under the joint guidance of Prof. Michael Schechter from the Sheba Heart Center and Prof. Yona Amitai from Bar Ilan University and the United CPF, showed that in those areas where desalinated water is used, there is an increased mortality from myocardial infarction, which is better known as an attack Lev, compared to areas where the drinking water does not contain desalinated water.
Magnesium plays an essential role in the human body and is necessary for the activity of over 300 enzymes and many metabolic processes. There is a connection between magnesium deficiency and cardiovascular diseases including stroke, diabetes and possibly even colon cancer. Large-scale epidemiological studies have shown in the past that in areas where there is a magnesium deficiency in the drinking water and in the diet, there is an increase in the incidence of type 2 diabetes, heart attacks, strokes and death compared to areas where there is no magnesium deficiency.
In addition, in previous studies, Prof. Schechter and others showed that adding magnesium to heart patients and healthy people improves the ability to perform stress tests, reduces heart rhythm disorders, causes an improvement in blood lipids and blood platelets, reduces signs of inflammation, improves the function of the endothelium in the blood vessel walls and improves the quality of life index. In 2003, Prof. Schechter received the prestigious annual award of the American Nutrition Association for his contribution to understanding the physiology of magnesium in the human body.
The current study followed 4,700 patients recruited to the ACSIS study between 2002-2013. The ACSIS study is carried out once every two years and includes all patients who come with an acute heart attack to intensive care units in Israel and monitors for a year various clinical parameters such as additional heart attacks, stroke, angina and mortality. The patients were divided into two groups according to their residential areas - areas where there is desalination of drinking water and areas where there is no desalination. The study population was also divided into two - before and after 2006 - the start of desalination of drinking water in Israel.
In the early period, from 2002 to 2006, there was no significant difference in the mortality of those who lived in areas with desalination compared to those without desalination of the drinking water, however from 2008 to 2013, when the desalination of the drinking water began, a significant increase in mortality was found at one month and one year follow-up in patients who lived in the areas with desalinated water compared to the patients who did not live in such areas. Later, 211 patients with acute myocardial infarction were sampled and it was found that the level of magnesium in the blood is significantly lower in those who lived in areas with desalinated water compared to those who did not live in such areas.
6 years ago an assessment was made by the Ministry of Health according to which adding 250 million cubic meters of desalinated water to the water distribution system each year there is a risk of excess mortality of 250 people per year. Since then, the amount of desalinated water has more than doubled.
Previous surveys found that in Israel, as in other countries in the world, the consumption of magnesium is tens of percent lower than the recommended one. The advisory committee to the American Ministries of Health and Agriculture also recently issued a position document that there is a magnesium deficiency in American food, something that could increase morbidity, and called for increasing the consumption of magnesium in food.
But while the Ministry of Health supported the addition of magnesium to the desalinated water, the Ministry of Finance and the Water Authority opposed it - partly due to financial costs. A decrease in magnesium in drinking water harms not only humans but also plants and animals, something that has significant ecological significance. The lack of magnesium in the water used for agriculture may result in damage to the quality of agricultural crops and a decrease in the amount of magnesium in fresh fruits and vegetables.
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Most of the water consumed in Israel, especially in the coastal plain, is from desalination
Amir's response is the right one, because it makes sense!!!
The vast majority of magnesium in the human diet is solid food, not water. Therefore, there is no logic in the researchers' claims!!
Another important fact - no one in Israel drinks desalinated water. The desalinated water is mixed with local well water or reservoir water, thus achieving an improvement in the quality of the well and reservoir water. The tap water in our home contains magnesium!!!
emir
I read that up to 30% of the daily consumption is covered by water (http://www.magnesiumeducation.com/magnesium-in-drinking-water)
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This year we pray and the gates of the rain heaven open.
The whole magnesium in water story is spin. And it is not difficult to guess who has the interest (who happens to have both a water desalination company and a company for pumping magnesium from the Dead Sea).
Water is a negligible source of magnesium.
95% of the daily intake comes from solid food.
Agricultural produce without magnesium does not reach the markets because no one will buy vegetables and fruits that have not developed chlorophyll. So for example, the public wouldn't eat parsley without magnesium, because it was yellow and shaggy.
bar
Let's assume that a company that produces a magnesium supplement for drinking water is the one that funded the research. What you need to do is - tell them thank you!
Nonsense. Magnesium is found in water naturally, but not in desalinated water, so it has to be added artificially. I am not aware that pharmaceutical companies produce magnesium for introduction into the water system. The fact that we have to buy their produce because of the government's negligence is what you should fight for. And as for sponsorships - the sponsors probably don't like intelligent readers.
It looks a bit like research commissioned by the pharmaceutical companies.
Everywhere except the scientist in the small letters in the article, you see **-Pharm. They want to promote magnesium supplements because there are new magnesium ores in Israel, that's all.
What is 250 deaths a year compared to some money? What is amazing is that the considerations are only financial, and the health aspect is ignored. What is missing in the article is the list of places where water low in magnesium is provided, so that people who live there may be able to act publicly (and personally - take pills). And another question - have they already started fluoridating the drinking water?
Those who have money should buy Magnox, there is also syrup for children. and six Not too expensive.